Early Highway Caution Lights

I just came across these ads for highway caution lights that combined advertising with an acetylene gas lighted safety device.

There is information about Gustaf Dalén who invented a way to use acetylene gas to light lighthouses. The A.G.A Company started the Highway Lighthouse Company to make caution lights for American Highways.

Feel free to look for more information. I started looking
here  (archive.org)

here  (wikipedia)

here (shorpy.com)

here  (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/)

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Cats Hate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

One reason cats hate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin .

Spurious Cat History

Easter Time Smirks

Yes! 

You now have some

SPURIOUS EASTER HUMOR like:

There's more where that came from

Added some odd humor over at my other blog covering theses spurious historical events:

-the Great Depression

-the Golden Birler Shoe award 

-begging on Forty Second street

-Thomas Pertwith

Crow Elkhart Motor Company

1917 Crow Elkhart Touring Car


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1917 Dodge

1917 Dodge Brothers Winter Car. 30-35 horse power!





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The Roamer Automobile

The 1917 Roamer





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